Josefina Lopez (born 1969, San Luis PotosÃ, Mexico) is a Chicana playwright, perhaps best known as the author of the play (and co-author of the screenplay) Real Women Have Curves. Lopez was born in 1969, in San Luis PotosÃ, Mexico, and at age five emigrated with her family to the United States, where they settled in El Paso, Texas.[2] She graduated from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts before obtaining a BA in film and screenwriting from Columbia College Chicago, and an MFA in screenwriting from the School of Theater, Film and Television at UCLA. After having over 100 productions of her plays throughout the United States, Josefina Lopez is one of today's preeminent Chicana writers.[citation needed] She has written several plays such as Simply Maria, Or the American Dream; Confessions of Women From East L.A.; Boyle Heights; Lola Goes To Roma; Food For The Dead; Unconquered Spirits; Queen of the Rumba and Real Women Have Curves. She is the co-screenwriter of the film version of her play Real Women Have Curves, starring America Ferrera (Ugly Betty) and Ingrid Oliu (Stand and Deliver). The movie garnered much acclaim, including at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival where the film won the "Audience Award" and a "Special Jury Award for Acting." Josefina has written several other screenplays including Loteria for Juarez about the mysterious murders of women in the Mexico/US border town of Ciudad Juárez; ADD Me to the Party, an original comedic screenplay about three Latinas addicted to adrenaline who drive around in an Impala looking for the next distraction; Lola Goes To Roma, a mother daughter comedy that takes place in Europe; a biopic titled Queen Of the Rumba, and a family comedy titled No Place Like Home.(Wikipedia)
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